Editing Torah study (section)

==Origins==
[[File:Adolf Behrman - Talmudysci.jpg|thumb|Rabbis engaged in Talmud study, early 20th century]]

{{quote|...the practical commandments are but a prelude to the intelligibles, and since the intellect is not constituted by them, there is no advantage<ref>A Jew is usually performing Mitzvot because this is Avodah of actions and this can give performance with intellect about doing this. This would be without prove to perform Mitzvot to have intellect by them because the Jewish religion is always inspiring by God</ref> in performing them|[[Or Adonai]]}}

Torah study is counted among the [[613 mitzvot]] (commandments), from the verse in [[Deuteronomy]]: "And you shall teach it to your children,"<ref>Deuteronomy 6:7</ref> upon which the Talmud comments that "Study is necessary in order to teach."

{{quote|...the essence is to perform a [[Mitzvah]] at its correct time and with all of its detail and precision as an immutable decree and that purity of good thought should be attached to the performance then 'you will then go securely and both will be fulfilled in your hands. As the explicit Mishna<ref>[[Pirkei Avot]]</ref> taught that all for whom their actions are greater than their wisdom, then even their wisdom will be preserved in holiness, purity, and inspirational fervor and the comparison that Chazal make about this cannot be trivialized, that all whose actions are greater than their wisdom are like a tree whose leaves are few and their roots are many, that all the winds in the world cannot move it from its place and 'the one who hears will internalize'|''Nefesh haTzimtzum'', [[Chaim of Volozhin]]}}

The importance of study is attested to in another Talmudic discussion regarding which is preferred: study or action? The answer there, a seeming compromise, is "study that leads to action."<ref>Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 40b</ref> Although the word "Torah" refers specifically to the [[Chumash (Judaism)|Five Books of Moses]], in Judaism the word also refers to the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), the [[Talmud]] and other religious works, even including the study of [[Kabbalah]], [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidism]], [[Mussar movement|Mussar]] and much more.

=== Kabbalah of action ===

{{quote|R. Menachem son of Yossi expounded the verse: For a Commandment is a "candle", but the Torah is "light"<ref>"For a commandment is a candle, and the Torah is light... -	  נֵ֣ר מִ֖צְוָה וְת֣וֹרָה א֑וֹר" (''[[Book of Proverbs]] 6:23'')</ref>... for this is your life and ''Torah study'' is equated with all the Mitzvot<ref>God has attributes, so He has Essence and the modality to give expressions to the effect because He is "The First Cause": there are causes that determine all effects and God is the Master of all; the study of Torah can be "[[Pardes (Jewish exegesis)|Pardes]]" only by truth of this vision because cause and effect became the general and the particular of exegesis of [[Talmud]], that is "form and matter" or "[[archetype]] and [[shape|form]]": {{quote| Since the truth is witness to itself, and is in agreement from all sides, it appears that the author of the [[Sefer Yetzirah]] (Book of Creation) would agree with this. He said, "as a flame is connected to a live coal." This attests to an unbreakable unity. This is the truth about His essence, for as the essence of a substance cannot be conceived apart from its existence, nor its existence apart from its essence, so, too, the existence of an attribute cannot be conceived apart from that which it describes, nor that which it describes apart from the attribute. This includes the absolute good which contains all the species of perfections. This is what we wished to establish|[[Hasdai Crescas]]}}God is "the simplest" because He is One, but He has power, knowledge, will and eternity and perfect in all attributes, God is perfect for [[good]] to have Mercy and Justice... Hasdai Crescas concludes by stating that the superiority of the knowledge of truth consists in that of God but his essence is not knowable except by himself.</ref>}}

The Mitzvot is like a body because of their performances and these are done by "action" as the material elements with holy [[Kavanah]] to bring supernal life to all the world... (i.e. to give [[good]] and "Rachamim/Clement attributes" by [[Tikkun (book)|Tikkun]]) But ''Torah study'' is always protection by God and this is a cause of the Brit of [[Matan Torah]], as written : ''≪Torah is in your heart... this is in your "words"!≫''

{{quote|As per Chazal: Until the Torah was given to Israel, it says that "and Moshe ascended to God," but after the Torah was given, God says: "and they shall make Me a Sanctuary and I will dwell in them." These words will suffice for a thinking person. And through them he will see and understand his path in holiness, 'and righteousness will grasp its way' to preserve his study of the Holy Torah all the days of his life 'to despise bad and choose good' for himself and for all the creations and all the worlds to provide pleasure for his Maker and Creator. May it be God's Will 'that He open up our hearts with His Torah and that He should place Love and Fear of Him in our hearts' and thereby complete His intention in creating His Universe 'that the Universe will be rectified with His Sovereignty'|Chaim of Volozhin}}

The Torah is the Tree of Life to find true spiritual life, that is the Holy Spirit with the three Supernal Sefirot with Da'at and the others. The study of Torah can give life and this can build a Temple in the inner dimension of person: God will not take the holy sacrifices but words of Torah and of prayers because in [[Messianic era]] the sins will be not and the little sins will be atoned through true force of soul in the heart ([[Soul#Judaism|Neshama]] and [[Ruach]] with [[Nephesh]]) and words of truth on pure and holy mouth.